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Police Report Oct 22 2009

2009-10-21 Jan Potgieter, 65, caretaker of the holiday chalets Villa Nora at the Johannesberg farm near Ellisras/Lephalale in Limpopo, was shot dead inside the homestead and a Zimbabwean man – injured by Mr Potgieter’s wife Annelie during the attack, was later arrested by a commando of local farmers and police, reports Beeld journalist Marietie Louw-Carstens

The speedy arrest was due to the rapid action of farmers and police who barred the access roads and trapped the 18-year-old injured, armed Zimbabwean man, said police superintendent Mohale Ramatseba.

An Elardus Park, Pretoria woman has discovered the dead body of her 27-year-old son in their bathroom in the high-security complex of Disselboom Park. Police spokeswoman Lynnette Erasmus, said it’s not yet known what the cause of death was. The dead man, Morné le Grange, showed ‘several bruises across his body’ but no other injuries. His mother said Mrs Le Grange went to the bathroom at around 6am but turned away when she realised her son was inside. At 9am, she tried the door again but he was still inside – she then called to him and tried to speak to him but got no response. The third time she opened the door, came across her son in the bathroom, seated on the toilet with his upper body hanging halfway across the bathtub. “She touched him, realised he was ice-cold, and called the police, said Ms Erasmus. http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/55c4881035f44184bf8c2f8e3c7eb03e/22-10-2009-11-51/Vrou_kom_op_haar_seun_se_lyk_in_badkamer_af_

Murdered 17-year-old Lanche Robert’s attackers still missing

Amanda Roestoff – Nobody has been arrested thus far for th emurder of Lanché Roberts, a grade-ten pupil at the Hoërskool Jan Viljoen, shot by a large armed gang while the youth was riding on a bakkie with a classmate whose father was delivering the payroll to a local sandstone quarry in Randfontein. The bakkie was ambushed by an armed gang which had blocked the access road – and when the father drove off at high speed with the gang in pursuit, firing madly, the youth was shot dead Police Supt. Gert Kruger of the Randfontein-police said the attack gang fled in a silver VW Polo. Anyone with information about the incident may call him at telephone 082 413 2635 bel. ’A memorial service is held on Friday at 15.00 in the Ou Apostoliese Kerksaal on the corner of Greenhills Avenue and Nerine Street in Greenhills, Randfontein. Read original Beeld report of shooting

Vereeniging civil-engineering student killed – nothing taken

2009-10-22 Johannesburg - A 19-year-old VaalTechnology university student from Limpopo was stabbed to death in near his residence in Vereeniging, Gauteng police said on Thursday

"He was walking to his residence with his friend at 23:00 on Wednesday, after they studied together at the campus library," Constable Teboho Lephoto said. The students were walking through Bedworth Park when two men with knives demanded cash and cellphones. "The robbers took the friend's cellphone and he managed to flee... the friend was stabbed in the upper body," Lephoto said. The attackers fled , leaving the stabbed student to die at the scene. They did not take anything, ‘he still had his cellphone on him as well as cash…’ said the constable. Lephoto said the student was from Limpopo and was in his first year, studying civil engineering. His parets were informed of the murder on Wednesday night and were driving up from Limpopo to identify the body. "It's very sad, they sent their child to study and become something, and now his body is going home," he said. No arrests had been made as yet, and a case of murder was being investigated. http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/696a9e8062774ec1962dbba618692b1e/22-10-2009-10-42/Student_killed_in_robbery

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '